Sentence examples for may I correct from inspiring English sources
As the translator whose versions of Mandelstam she cites, may I correct one small inaccuracy?
A question about what drew two young African-American kids to a genre beloved of white men ("May I correct you at first?" Mikaiah responds politely.
Lest your readers start bombarding me with even more letters, may I correct two errors in Debra Galant's otherwise very fair account of my "settling in" at Princeton (front page, March 5)?
My use of 'Roman cardinal' for 'I' may have been a bit cheeky, there being more than a few different letters that were used to represent numbers in Latin (not I think including O for zero, though better classicists than I may correct me on this).
MS. NORTON -- No, if I may correct you, it did not challenge the constitutionality of the entire Endangered Species Act.
May I take this opportunity to correct Budd Schulberg's recollection, in Cavanaugh's article, that his mother introduced the actress Estelle Taylor to my father.
As in: "This may not be politically correct, but may I buy you a drink?" This use of "politically correct" initially reflected the New Left and the feminist movement of that era mocking the efforts by the Communist Party to insist on rigid conventions of speech, along the lines of George Orwell's Thought Police in his novel 1984.
When dinner is on the table, you ask, "May I have the change?" The correct answer is: a.
Though not incorrect, it should be noted that both are correct, though "may I" is more formal.
If it's in quotes, they're his words, though I may need to correct a few words here or there.
